PREVENTION AND HEALTH CHECKS
Preventive Medicine focuses on the health of individuals, communities, and defined populations. Its goal is to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and it hopes to prevent disease and disability.
What does prevention encompass?
Using common prevention strategies such as regular handwashing, helps prevent illnesses like colds and flu from spreading. Taking the time to prepare and store food safely prevents food poisoning. In both cases, it is much more efficient and cost-effective to prevent the illness than to cure it.
This is what we call primary prevention – get into action before it is too late.
Our preventive services include health checks, travel medicine and childrens immunizations, nutritional counselling and smoking cessation.
See below for more information on our prevention packages. If you would like more information please email us at prevention@ezorg.nl. To book an appointment, call 070 306 5100 and select the Polyclinic department.
Preventive Health Checks
The IHCH Preventive check-up offers you an understanding of your current state of health.
A prevention package includes:
- Medical history, family history, lifestyle behaviours (smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, exercise)
- Vital signs and Biometrics: BP, heart rate, height, weight, BMI
- Physical exam: Eyes, ENT, lymph nodes, thorax, heart, abdominal, skin
- Physical and emotional well-being
Possible lab tests that are excluded in the package price:
- Blood test to be done on the day of the appointment: CBC, lipid panel, blood sugar, liver function, kidney function, thyroid function and electrolytes
Please contact prevention@ezorg.nl for further information, health certificates and pricing.
If you would like to book an appointment please send an email to prevention@ezorg.nl or call (070) 306 5100 (select option 2 for the Polyclinic)
(Pre) Employment and Life Insurance
Changing jobs or renewing your contract? Obtaining a mortgage or a life insurance policy? The IHCH is well-established and certified to carry out (pre-) employment and mortgage/life medical clearance health checks. This includes an extensive intake meeting with an organisation-approved+ doctor; physical examination; compilation and analysis of all necessary tests; telephone consults and follow-up appointments as needed, final reporting to both patient and occupational doctor if required by the organisation and centralised billing.
As the requirements of the examination vary per posting or organisation, so too does the cost. For the best evaluation, we ask that you email us the form provided by your organisation or embassy (prevention@ezorg.nl) and we will contact you with a quote.
*Established relationships include United Nations, US Embassy, Oxfam Novib, Kinetic, Woodland, Brunel, NPCOP, OMV and various insurance companies, embassies and inter-governmental organisations throughout The Netherlands and the European Union.
US Visa Medical Examination
Are you applying for a US immigrant visa with the US Consulate in the Netherlands? Then you are required to have a medical exam. IHCH is accredited by the US Consulate in Amsterdam to provide this service. Along with the medical exam we can also provide any additional required tests and vaccinations. Your chest x-ray can also be arranged. Please contact prevention@ezorg.nl for further information and pricing.
Well-Woman Health Check
For women registered with IHCH, we also offer a prevention package together with a well woman check with a female doctor. Depending on your age, your prevention package may also include a check-up including a pap smear, breast exam, referral for sonogram or mammogram, advice on contraception, advice on sexually transmitted diseases, advice on fertility, and some menopausal or hormonal issues.
Please contact prevention@ezorg.nl for further information, pricing, and to book an appointment.
You may also call us on (070) 306 5100 (select option 2 for the Polyclinic from the telephone menu).
For appointments: Call us on 070 306 5111 and select option 2 for the Polyclinic
For further information: you may also email us at prevention@ezorg.nl
Please note that we adhere to a strict 24-hour No-show / cancellation policy. Therefore, please be aware that unless we receive at least 24 hours notice by emailing us, prior to the cancellation of an appointment with our Prevention Medical Team, you will receive an invoice and be charged a No-show / cancellation fee of € 45. The fee is not usually reimbursed by your insurance company.